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> SJ>2. Then radiometric dating established that the earth is
> >thousands of millions of years old.
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> I'm sorry, radiometric dating relies on too many assumptions, and
> there are way too many known gigantic errors, such as the basaltic
> rocks of the Uinkaret Plateau of the Grand Canyon (an area I'm very
> familiar with), and many, many others, for it to be convincing to me.
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> SJ> 4. There is no positive evidence that the Earth is 10,000 years
> >old.
>
> I disagree. There is LOTS of evidence for this figure. First of
> all, as I have said, the Bible itself seems to indicate this, and
> IF we are Christians, we certainly ought to take this information
> seriously. Of course the Bible does not come out and tell us
> plainly these ages so we must rely on genealogies, etc. which of
> course could be wrong, but it does not seem reasonable to me that
> they could be off by so large a factor.
>
> Science also provides us with much evidence to dispute the "old
> earth" idea. Examples:
>
> 1. There's not enough helium in our atmosphere.
> 2. Excessively high oil, gas, and water pressures existing within
> the relatively permeable rock. These pressures should have
> leaked down by now.
> 3. There's not enough volcanic sediment, considering the known
> amount of material being ejected each year.
> 4. There's not enough river sediment in the oceans to account for
> the known amount entering the oceans each year.
> 5. The continents are eroding WAY to fast for them to be
> "millions" of years old. They should be flat by now.
> 6. "The rate at which elements such as copper, gold, tin, lead,
> silicon, mercury, uranium, and nickel are entering the oceans
> is very rapid when compared with the small quantities of these
> elements already in the oceans. There is no known means by which
> large amounts of these elements can precipitate out of the
> oceans. Therefore, the oceans must be very much younger than
> a million years." "In The Beginning..." by Walter T. Brown, Jr.
> 7. Meteorite material is only found in the sediments near the
> earth's surface.
> 8. Meteoritic Dust. (One of my personal favorites) Remember those
> big pads on the Apollo spacecraft???
> 9. The decay of the earth's magnetic field. If indeed this field
> is caused by an electric current inside the earth, considering
> the rate of decrease, and extrapolating backwards, there would
> have been too much heat for the earth to be more than 20,000
> years old. (please don't remind me of "reversals". There is
> no direct evidence to support this, it is merely an assumption
> to explain away the obvious.
> 10.The fact that there are still so many comets left.
> 11.The fact of Galaxy clusters. (I know, I know. "Missing Mass".
> yea, right.)
> 12. And on and on...
Great post Tony I totally agree!